by Christi Parsons He may suffer in other reviews of his first 100 days in office, but one analysis finds that President Obama has at least got game. That assessment came from the star point guard of the University of...

ALBANY — Before there could be Tennessee, there had to be Dayton. Before there can be a resolution on whether there will be a Final Four in Indianapolis in 2016, there was the small matter of getting to the Final Four in Tampa, Fla., in 2015....

ALBANY — The year was 1985 and the NCAA women's Final Four was in Austin. Geno Auriemma remembers arriving at the University of Texas, looking around and thinking, "They have buildings bigger than our campus. It's another world."
Auriemma was...

ALBANY — There were stretches in the last 12 minutes of the first half and again in the first 10 minutes of the second half when all you could do was sit there, shake your head and wonder.
Does it get any better than this? Can it get any better...

STORRS — On her final night at Gampel Pavilion, the great sharpshooter, the greatest in the history of women's college basketball, hit five more three-pointers.
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis has 386 threes for her career now and is seven from setting the...

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UNCASVILLE — Geno Auriemma's face lit up when we started talking about Yale's victory at Harvard on Friday night.
The hot, sold-out gym … the fans so close, so loud … the Harvard kids yelling "Safety School!" at the Yale kids … a school desperately trying to get into the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 53 years.
"How cool is that?" Auriemma said Saturday after his UConn women crushed Cincinnati 93-34 in the AAC Tournament quarterfinals at Mohegan Sun. "You look at the mid-...

STORRS — This would be the perfect afternoon for the perfect shooter.
This was a Senior Day that Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis knew she would share with Kiah Stokes, but suddenly found herself sharing with her little brother. Xander, 4 years old, bow tie, vest, spiffy jacket, cutest thing ever, ran into Geno Auriemma's arms during pregame ceremonies. A collective ahhhh filled Gampel Pavilion.
"Nothing new," Mosqueda-Lewis said. "He's always trying to steal the show. I had to tell him, 'Today is not...

They are sons of immigrants. One's Italian surname ends with a familiar vowel. The other's Polish name ends with an equally familiar "ski." Forever sons of immigrants, and they embrace that birthright with all their being.
They, too, are the godfathers of college and USA basketball. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma are revered and envied, placed on the ultimate treadmill where even the greatest NCAA and Olympic championships are met with the stern notion they have...

NEW YORK — When it all goes perfectly, and sometimes it does for the UConn women, their performances over the years have been compared to a Broadway play. When the ball rotates so crisply, bing, bing, bing, open three for Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, it looks so beautifully choreographed you feel like throwing roses out on the floor.
Maybe that's why Geno Auriemma enjoys the Broadway shows. Maybe that's why he made sure on this holiday week trip to New York that his team got to see "The Book of Mormon"...

HARTFORD — The setting is elegant and theater-like, a large white room with a balcony running around the perimeter and a stage at one end. The floor is carpeted in red.
For years, it's been a meeting room at Aetna Inc.'s building on Farmington Avenue. On Thursday night, it will become a basketball court.
After a story appeared in The Courant in March about the successful Aetna women's basketball teams of the 1920s and '30s, Aetna was inspired to go back in time for a game between the women of...

STORRS — Geno Auriemma says it has been an obsession of his to learn to play the piano. He has an iPad app, he says, and likes to fool around with it in his office.
The UConn women's basketball coach laughs when asked if his goal is to play the piano better than Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer.
"Nah," Auriemma said Friday. "I just want to play a couple of Danny Federici's notes from [Bruce] Springsteen's E Street Band. I just play a couple of the openings, so I can sit in the lobby bar and have...